Since the 17th I've added 14.2 gallons of bleach and 7 boxes of Borax. Saturday morning I really started hitting it with the Borax - using a box every couple of hours or so for a total of 5 boxes for the day - the pH stayed the same all day. Sunday morning I finally had a 7.2pH so I did another box of borax and decided to wait since that was 1 more than PoolDoc told me to use and by that night my I had a 7.6pH. So hopefully it won't continue to go up today

The water is blue but still cloudy - I can't see anymore algae. It almost looks like borax particles floating in the water - imagine that

Chlorine is well above 5.0 FC. Not quite orange but getting close. I didn't add any bleach this morning. I wanted to wait until I could check the FC level. Oh and the "Ions" are down not gone yet but definitely less than they were.

So my question is this - what should I do to maintain what I've done until I can get the Taylor kit? And what chlorine level is safe to swim in? We're going to be hitting 90 this weekend and the kids are dying to get in - they would have gotten in when it was green if I would have let them.

Thanks!!